On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Eric, > I don't think the walls of the nano-voids are real insulators. > However it seems (as DGTG alludes to) very intense electric and magnetic > phenomena take place in the special void places. And the nano-voids are > highly dynamic, open and shut and open again and this converts LENR in > LENR+. > Peter > The term "topological insulator" is a little bit of a misnomer. If I have understood what I have read, a typical topological insulator has a band gap in the bulk and is gapless at the surface. I believe some topological insulators can become topological superconductors when appropriately doped. What is interesting in this regard is the surface effect and the connection to the doping of the material. I don't think the bulk of the LENR substrate would need to have a band gap for this kind of effect to be potentially relevant, nor do I see a requirement for superconductivity. Perhaps when there are sufficient impurities at the outermost layers, a gap develops and the behavior changes. Condensed matter is a fascinating topic. The geometry, the kinds of atoms at different lattice sites, the pressure and temperature of the material, all of these dimensions can affect the electronic and magnetic characteristics of the material. Eric
